Walker says ending same-day registration too costly

Pewaukee - Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday that a Government Accountability Board report that says it would cost the state $5.2 million to end the state's same-day registration law convinced him that he would not sign such a bill. »Read Full Blog Post

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"Yeah, it's super expensive to have a poll worker look at someone's ID on Election Day."

Well, besides the cost of making the IDs available to those who asked for them, in anticipation of having the ID part of "Voter ID" in effect for a 'big' election, the clerk's office in Madison did a 'mock' election with city workers and volunteers to see how the process would go. And they found that "hav[ing] a poll worker look at someone's ID on Election Day" was causing it to take on average two minutes per voter to get through the process of getting out and showing ID, signing the book, putting away ID, etc. During a big election, even if you have two sets of poll books and two lines to process voters, you can have an average of one voter per minute walking through the door.

One voter per minute, and two minutes to process that voter means you have a BIG problem. The result is you either have HUGE lines, or you spend a bunch more money to hire more poll workers and/or set up more polling locations.

I don't know about "super expensive", but yeah, there is a significant cost to "hav[ing] a poll worker look at someone's ID on Election Day".

LOL! So after getting caught using same day registration with his own son, and in light of the fact that same day registration is guaranteed under Federal law anyway, NOW Scooter is opposed to ending it?

And no new kitchen for Tonette either? Poor, poor Scotty. That's what happens when you're on the Naughty List!

People who move but to an address within the same ward would be still be allowed to same-day register. In a 'student area' that could be a significant number of voters and registrations.

(I'm not sure what the rule would be for a polling place that services two wards: that is, a voter moves from ward #1 into ward #2, with both ward #1 and ward #2 voting at the same location; under 'motor-voter' can that person still same-day register, or is he/she out-of-luck?)